Thursday, February 11, 2016

Québec anglophones will vote OUI after reading this.

I’m not sure why the truth hasn’t been told to people in
Québec. The immigrants, for example, who are after wealth and not
integration have somehow been convinced by English Canada that it’s in
their interest to stay in the poorest province per capita (I’m talking about
the actual money you have to spend) in Canada. So they come here and run around
talking about how great all the anti-colonial movements were in their
countries, but then prevent us from doing the same thing. By calling its
own shots, Québec could provide the possibility of generating much more wealth
than it is currently in this Canadian federal regime.

Since racism is attacking people for their race and not for
what they actually do, I don’t need to excuse myself merely for saying what I
see. Of course it’s fashionable among SJWs to say I am “privileged”
because of supposed past wrongdoings. Before some start bringing up First
Nation genocides to shut up Québec nationalism, I’ll just get it out of the way
that Québec
never massacred Amerindians. So, in today’s Québec, to immigrants, I say:
“You do realize that you force us to stay in Canada and prevent us from
acquiring the wealth that is ours and would also be yours? You force us to give
them taxes and soldiers to bombard your brothers and sisters. Why believe the
lie that it’s in your best interest to vote NON?”

Nobody seems to realize how rich Quebec is, including Anglophones who almost
unanimously vote NON and Liberal, no matter what the Liberals do.
They blindly give them carte blanche every time.

Doesn’t anyone ever ask why we
have several enormously high bridges crossing the Saint Lawrence?
It’s because of the huge vessels that pass through our territory, toll-free,
from and to Ontario and the ocean. The new Champlain Bridge is supposed
to cost
us around $5 billion. Even though this bridge falls under the
responsibility of the federal government, they want to make it a toll road. And
who’s going to be crossing that bridge? Why Québec taxpayers of course! Certainly
not anyone from the supposed have provinces (since they say Québec
is have-not in federalist Newspeak). Doing a little
math, the bridge will probably cost between $1,200-2,000 for each person paying
taxes in Québec, depending on how expensive it actually ends up being.
Regardless, it will cost a fortune because it has to be of a certain height for
passing ships.

Next to the Champlain Bridge there is a much lower and
unnoticed two-lane bridge, the Estacade du pont Champlain, which is a
great deal less expensive. Let’s say that constructing a similar bridge, with
six lanes, as is planned for the new Champlain Bridge, would be more in the
ballpark of $1.5 billion. That being said, since the $1.5 billion would cover
the needs of the average Montréal commuter, wouldn’t it be fair to say that the
$3.5 billion difference ought to be paid through tolls of the passing ships?
That’s not what our dear federalist friends tell us though. Oh no. They say
that we are going to pay for it all! However, we don’t need
a bridge that high. The ships do. And they pass through our territory free of
charge!

I am not saying to shut down the Saint Lawrence Seaway, but
tolls, taxes or whatever else on English Canada to move their products is what
should be paying the enormous difference in price for that bridge, not us. And
that us includes our fellow anglophone citizens from the West Island
as well.

An independent Québec will be able to control the strategic
geographic position of the Saint Lawrence as well as having the right to impose
or to not impose a toll to cross through our territory as is done in every
other country, such as the Suez or Panama canals. In 2013, the Suez Canal
generated $5.5
billion. Currently, the Saint Lawrence Seaway has less activity because of
the deindustrialization in the Great Lakes region (except of course the paradox
that is Toronto—where wealth is arbitrarily concentrated in the Golden
Horseshoe for political reasons, certainly not because of its geography).

Landlocked territories, without access to the ocean are generally
poorer. Look at Laos, Bolivia, Mali, Mongolia… even in Canada, Alberta has its
tar sands, but Vancouver is the one always cited as having the best quality of
life on tons of lists. Montréal has a navigable access to the ocean, but is
poorer than Toronto. And no, it’s not because of sovereignty movement or the
French language, as the distributers of the federalist kool-aid love to say.
It’s because Canada has made a political decision that Toronto will be its
metropolis and Montréal will become a satellite city of that metropolis, like
all the other Canadian cities.

Political and economic sovereignty, however, would transform
Montréal into a financial metropolis on an international level, with large
multinationals headquartered there again (and the huge salaries that go with
it). Montreal’s airport would be an international hub instead of having to go
to Toronto for everything. Quebec City would greatly benefit from becoming an
international capital—imagine the 30-40 embassies that would spring up and the
wealth it would generate. For a city with such an inferiority complex with
Montréal, vote OUI and watch Quebec City renovate itself into a
capital on an international scale.

No country has ever regretted attaining its sovereignty.

It’s becoming clear that the old victim discourse (the
historic betrayals of English Canada that are usually the backbone of
independence arguments) isn’t reaching Québec’s youth anymore. The younger
generation has pretty much moved on from the victim phase and they want to hear
a positive message about how independence would benefit them by defending their
values and economic interests. It’s things like having a population that is 50
times superior to that of, say, Prince Edward Island, but having more or less
the same amount of political power as that tiny island that seem ridiculous.

Furthermore, independence would eventually bring back those
$150,000 salaries from Toronto to Montréal, because Montréal would once again
become the great financial metropolis of an independent country instead of an
outpost of Toronto—Canada’s chosen metropolis. Montréal will regain its Stock
Exchange, as it was moved/merged with Toronto’s purely for political reasons,
despite what our federalist friends will tell you when they blame nationalism.

Look at cities like Oslo. Norway has a population of about 4.5
million and they have a stock exchange. So do the other Scandinavian countries.
Imagine if the three Scandinavian countries were one united country, since
their languages are 90% similar and they share a common history, do you think
Oslo would have the same importance that it now has as an international
capital?

Canada is a very long and narrow east-west strip where 85%
of the population resides. For political unity, to make this costly arrangement
work they try to push economic trade in and east-west direction, instead of the
more natural north-south axis, as 70%
of Québec’s exports are to the United States. When counting trade with
the rest of the world, that doesn’t leave much activity for the ROC east-west
thing. Hydro-Québec was probably created with the north-south axis in mind, as
it sells a good part of its electricity to the New England region.

What about the deplorable state of our roads? The Maritimes move
the product by truck, and a truck
can do as much damage as 10,000 automobiles on our roads—and they pass
through our territory free of charge! The enormous wear and tear of truck
transport coupled with our Québec winters means that the cost of our road
maintenance will always be high. However, we in Québec rarely traipse around
the Maritimes or Manitoba; we don’t need to pass through their territory. But
they do in ours. Could that be one of the big reasons why our roads are worse
off than theirs? Why are we letting this go on?

What about the whole Equalization payment comedy? They
portray it as if Canada gives poor Québec a gift of around $9-10
billion every year. They call Québec a have not. If we were
really such a heavy burden for Canada, wouldn’t they be happy to get rid of us?
Yes, Québec receives a sum around those figures, but it isn’t as if Québec
doesn’t pay equalization payments too. The federal government admits that
Québec pays 18% of it. With that, the “gift” gets reduced to around $6-7
billion. It’s also organized as if there were only ten provinces, without
counting the northern territories, in the Territorial Financing Formula (TTF).
That’s another huge sum to subtract. There are also three times more
Amerindians in English Canada than in Québec, many more millions that we pay
and from which we benefit nothing. Québec’s 8 million population is the second
largest in Canada, and the amount in equalization payments per person in
2014-15 was around $915 as opposed to Prince Edward Island’s $2,320 per person.
The federal “gift” is enormously less than they are claiming
in the media, especially considering the many millions we forego by not
managing our own affairs. Is their “gift” worth it? The Saint Lawrence Valley
currently generates little wealth for us, when it ought to be producing a lot
more given the traffic going through it. The mirage of equalization makes
people in Québec think they are receiving handouts. The reality is that Canada
is organized in such a way as to take what is ours. They don’t give us
anything.

What about the environment in all this? Look at it this way:
Alberta produces expensively extracted oil from the tar sands. Alberta has no
access to the ocean. British Colombia refused
a pipeline. For political reasons, they are obliged to pass through
the Saint Lawrence Valley. Not only should Québec impose a passage toll, as is
done everywhere else on earth, the wealth generated could, for example, finance
our existing electrical transportation network. The big picture is that Québec
produces cleaner hydroelectricity, which currently equalizes dirtier petrol
based energies coming from other provinces. Québec makes Canada look good
environmentally. Without Québec, Canada would be seen more as a polluter and
would perhaps even be pressured by the international community to pay carbon
credits to Québec—the UN
initiative currently acting on a local level that
gets big polluters to pay money to smaller polluters. Whether or not it’s a
scam of the “New World Order” approach, it’s an interesting way to look at ways
Québec could benefit.

What about the “dreaded” 3rd referendum? Well, is
democracy good or bad? If you believe democracy good, referendums are a much
better way to measure what a given population wants about a specific thing,
rather than some election on vague and unimportant stupidities like the candidate’s
hair. As a superior form of democracy, referendums win with 50% +1 on a
specific issue, instead of something like 30-40% of the voting population with
an election. When federalists say that they don’t want another referendum, what
they are really saying is that democracy is harmful—so we should just eliminate
elections all together because the separatists are crazy! Rather than convincing
the population that federalism is superior, federalists have decided to destroy
their own patrie with massive immigration that is already preventing
them from demographically defending themselves. They even put forth the idiocy
that the Syrians coming to Montréal should be allowed
access to English language schools with the idea that they have
already suffered so much that it would be cruel to impose French
upon them. Studying in French is a form of torture, you know.

In any case, I think I’m going to have to do a part II to
this article. For now, let me close with this: some say that we need to
reinforce the Québec state before concerning ourselves with independence. Just
the opposite is true! By using the enormous benefits of independence, we could
finally address the problems that are currently plaguing us. The polls show
that the majority of Québec
youth consider themselves Quebecers first. Younger and older, whatever
language, we just need to realize that independence really pays.

I said that Québec, being a passage corridor frequently used by trucks from outside our borders might be one of the reasons (among others) that our roads are so bad. I don’t know how many Québec companies transport goods in Ontario or New Brunswick, but I suspect it’s fewer.

It’s not such a crazy idea, are you looking to just insult me, nothing else ?

No, I am not saying that nothing is transported on them, I am saying that the traffic might be heavier on Québec roads because of connecting the maritimes and Ontario and the fact that they primarily use trucks to move the product.

So, my logic is that: they move products in Ontario and Québec. But Québec doesn't move products with as much frequency in the maritimes or Ontario (I'm speculating for Ontario, cos I don't know, but I'm pretty sure we rarely go to MB, or Alberta). So, that means that our roads are being used by us and them on a regular basis, but their roads are being used by them, and less so, us. Understand ?

Just turn on the radio in Québec city, and you'll hear alot of union conspiracists like that... Government could cut everywhere, companies could drain our ressources dry and run off with the profits, but it will always be because of the unions for those guys... They probably think unions are responsible for global warming. Ho no, thats right... they dont believe in global warming...

I second that the roads are designed to require upkeep... you must know that corruption reigns here. I had the privilege of watching construction crews renovate right next door for 2 summers in a row and I can tell you I saw a whole lot of standing around. I'm ignorant and don't know exactly what goes in to reconstructing concrete but I'm fairly certain they could have been more efficient at completing the work. If jobs take longer to complete, people get paid more. If they do an intentionally shitty job, they are guaranteed work the next year. Makes sense.

Really ? I've heard all kinds of reasons why the roads are shit. I am suggesting only one. Where could I verify some sort of investigation that suggests that the unions are responsible ? (I'm not that pro-union by the way).

Québec has 20% more roads with 30% less population. Take a map from both provinces and check where the populations live. Anglo Canadians in general tend to live and group mostly in the southern parts and are not like French who have spread throughout the hole terrirory.Besides, Québec has built it's highways a long time before Ontario.

In the seventies there was only the 401 in Ontario and their regulations for weight were very strict . I whitnessed two trucks loading in one at the Québec border.

Most of Quebecs trucking is up the 401 to Toronto or cross into the states at Detroit. I truck to eastern states out of Quebec through Vermont and never deliver there. Maybe they should be compensated by Quebec! Since you completely guessed about the trucking I assume you are full of shit about everything else or your just plain stupid!

Jesus christ, I didn't completely guess about the trucking, I put two references there about the damage done by them and the amount of trucking in the maritimes. Yeah, maybe Québec should pay a toll to cross into Vermont, if their roads are as bad as ours.

I am saying that we should pay for where we cross, especially if serious wear and tear is involved. Or negotiate something that would benefit both sides.

I fully agree with your right to express your opinion, even if it is uninformed and fallacious. It's amazing what conclusions one can draw with no facts, no knowledge and no logic. Specious nonsense from start to finish.

Seriously your blog as an American looking into Quebec is Suspect. Your facts are full of shit , and you leave out how Quebec dumbs down its citizens to get their OUI vote for the future. We can go on about this for years about Quebec and separation , but since your an American your comments been nothing so go play and comment on AN AMERICAN IN AMERICA on your WAR MONGERING COUNTRY.

«Quebec dumbs out its citizens to get a yes»... and you're talking about facts full of shit? Yeah, we all know how federalists are: they love imigrants, but only if they vote NO. We saw that in 95. Get lost dude.

A few days ago you kindly left me a message on my blog on language issues and linguistics. I seize this opportunity to let you know that I have now an English version of my blog: http://linguistically-correct.blogspot.ca/

I am certain that the terrible state of our roads is primarily a made-in-Quebec problem that goes back at least to the 1950's. In those days political corruption was tied to road construction politics. The Union National was in power when my father decided that that was not the environment in which he wanted to work as a civil engineer.

Roads are a long term investment. If you've done a bad job the first time around it's much more expensive to maintain them. We have had roads constructed on the cheap in a climate that is rough on roads because of the volitile temperature changes especially the freezing and thawing cycles through the winter. It has already been mentioned that we have far more road per capita than Ontario.

Corruption has been linked with road construction for the past 60+ years. That may have something to do with the high cost of road maintenance... This is one question (almost) all Québécois can get their teeth into !

Do you really think that people are going to pay tolls to cross under your bridges. "Look at the seppie troll at the bridge - wants more handouts from Canada and the Americans too!"

The sorry state of Quebec roads can be simply explained by the inherent corruption that ran rapid in your province for generations. If a construction company can get away with building a crappy road - they will and they did! - for generations.

I understand that you probably believe the bile that you spew, but seriously... go get an education.

You are better off in Canada where you are the best treated minority in the world - bar none!